The Samuel DuBois Cook Center is a scholarly collaborative that studies the causes and consequences of inequality and develops remedies for these disparities and their adverse effects.
On April 18, 2024, Cook Center Founding Director William Darity & Affiliate A. Kirsten Mullen spoke at the Inaugural Lecture for the Center for Truth, Racial Healing, and Restorative Justice at the Berkeley School of Theology. The Center at Berkley works locally and globally to offer opportunities for theological reflection, education, critique, and practice related to…
Cook Center Faculty Affiliate Bruce Orenstein was interviewed on Chicago Tonight, an evening program produced by WTTW, Chicago’s PBS Station. Bruce Orenstein is the Creator and Director of the four-part documentary series titled “Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation”. He was interviewed alongside series producer Chris Jenkins. Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation lays…
Dr. Peter Q. Blair, a participating fellow in Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics’ (DITE) 11th cohort with the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, has been promoted to associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) effective July 1. Dr. Blair’s work as an economist focuses on the…
Today, Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy Emerita at Duke University, will speak with Professor Carol Anderson, Janai Nelson, and Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw at Columbia Law School. She will be apart of a panel, presented by The Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies and the African American…
Faculty Affiliate Carliss Chatman, Professor at SMU Dedman School of Law, wrote a column on how Tesla’s move to Texas is testing just how far modern corporate law will lean in favor of management. In 2024, Tesla strategically moved its legal home from Delaware to Texas. A move that positioned the company to benefit from…
Faculty Affiliate Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University, will deliver the Richard Payne Lecture in Faith, Justice, and Health Care this Friday. The event is hosted by the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School. Her lecture, titled Black Women’s Religion and Their Health: When Individual and Institutional Factors Intersect, represents…
